Re: [gdm-list] GDM and smart card logon

["Philippe C. Martin" <philippe philippecmartin com>]

Many thanks,

I will take a look and will also gladly keep whatever is not _very_ 
proprietary (crypto issues) open source.


Philippe






On Thursday 22 September 2005 06:36 pm, Martin Paljak wrote:
> Have a look at www.opensc.org. Basically you can work nicely with some pam
> modules we have. There are some things that could be improved in a
> commercial environment but you're welcome to post patches for that stuff ;)
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 07:54:35AM +0000, Philippe C. Martin wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > My company provides cross-platform smart card solutions.
> >
> > Logical access is one of the areas I target, but I currently only support
> > the GINA technology (Windows) and am very interested in offering smart
> > card logon for GNU/Linux.
> >
> > I have two questions.
> >
> > 1) "Administrative" :I assume gdm is GPL: can I package it in a
> > commercial bundle which would have the actual GPL gdm source and my code
> > as binary ?
> >
> > 2) "Technical": (I have not looked at the code yet): is there any obvious
> > technical pitfall I should be aware of: I gather my implementation would
> > involve a daemon that would poll on smart card event (insertion/removal)
> > and send these events to the modified gdm that would in turn
> > 2.a) request a user PIN and pass it to the card
> > 2.b) retrieve logon information from the card (user, password, domain)
> > 2.c) pass the information to the OS
> >
> > Thank you and best regards,
> >
> > Philippe
> >
> >
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> peace,
> m.

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